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CHHTEiKI mHRffiOriT 8221 SUNSET BOULEVARD HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES , CALIFORNIA Friday afternoon, August 20 Two weeks from tomorrow I start for New York....As there will not be so many more letters to you this time, I think I may let this letter run on a bit, instead of my usual: Dear Wife: Just a hasty note to let you know all goes well working very hard worked today frm 10 AM to 1 PM other days almost as hard but feel pretty good weather pretty good room here at Chateau Varmint pretty good hope you are taking care yrself my love to Eagle, Montgomery, and Pill, Yr loving Harry. The mink coat complex is curious. I know you've always thought well of jema? having one, and suddenly I so much want you to — put of the most perverse, selfish, almost mystic reasons, as thus: Much though I like a lot of people here, I hate the work — for me, it seems so sterile, so childish. It has been rather hard to stick on, week after week. I have had to make myself; I have counted days like a child awaiting Christmas — or like a prisoner — till I should see you again. It's been much harder than sticking on in Minneapolis, last fall, despite all the so-much-more glittery people here, because there I felt, both in writing Gideon and in teaching, that I was doing something valid,. not just whoring.....without too richly satisfying the customers. So, just because it hasr heen hard I want, so that it will not have seemed altogether futile, to have some compensatory trophy of it that will last three or four years or maybe more, and as I would so very much MMMM rather see something on or about you than on any. table or desk — or shoulders'. — of my own, I covet this fur coat (not inevitably mink', that choice is up to the great decorator, M. Povah) that I can earn In two or three or four weeks o4r drivel here, even after paying all taxes and expenses out of the total loot. Poor dearest darling, you will have to trot up to Big IT at all hours of the day and night, to exhibit the coat of mink, sable, Alaskan field-mouse or blotting paper that will thus be my sole monument of a Journey into the Valley of Ashes. No, that's not quite true. I d0 have other monuments: your qdorable-letters, so much more rare and spirited and gay and"" impressive than any with which you have ever blessed me before, and some excellent notes for the lecture-trmp to come,

CHHTEiKI mHRffiOriT 8221 SUNSET BOULEVARD HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES , CALIFORNIA Friday afternoon, August 20 Two weeks from tomorrow I start for New York....As there will not be so many more letters to you this time, I think I may let this letter run on a bit, instead of my usual: Dear Wife: Just a hasty note to let you know all goes well working very hard worked today frm 10 AM to 1 PM other days almost as hard but feel pretty good weather pretty good room here at Chateau Varmint pretty good hope you are taking care yrself my love to Eagle, Montgomery, and Pill, Yr loving Harry. The mink coat complex is curious. I know you've always thought well of jema? having one, and suddenly I so much want you to — put of the most perverse, selfish, almost mystic reasons, as thus: Much though I like a lot of people here, I hate the work — for me, it seems so sterile, so childish. It has been rather hard to stick on, week after week. I have had to make myself; I have counted days like a child awaiting Christmas — or like a prisoner — till I should see you again. It's been much harder than sticking on in Minneapolis, last fall, despite all the so-much-more glittery people here, because there I felt, both in writing Gideon and in teaching, that I was doing something valid,. not just whoring.....without too richly satisfying the customers. So, just because it hasr heen hard I want, so that it will not have seemed altogether futile, to have some compensatory trophy of it that will last three or four years or maybe more, and as I would so very much MMMM rather see something on or about you than on any. table or desk — or shoulders'. — of my own, I covet this fur coat (not inevitably mink', that choice is up to the great decorator, M. Povah) that I can earn In two or three or four weeks o4r drivel here, even after paying all taxes and expenses out of the total loot. Poor dearest darling, you will have to trot up to Big IT at all hours of the day and night, to exhibit the coat of mink, sable, Alaskan field-mouse or blotting paper that will thus be my sole monument of a Journey into the Valley of Ashes. No, that's not quite true. I d0 have other monuments: your qdorable-letters, so much more rare and spirited and gay and"" impressive than any with which you have ever blessed me before, and some excellent notes for the lecture-trmp to come,